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Right! Let's just conveniently ignore that some of the founders owned slaves and denied people who weren't white or male the right to vote. Let's ignore the three-fifths compromise. Let's come up with a completely unrealistic representation of the founders and tell our kids they were infallible. Let's omit important information and create a false positive light on the founders! BRILLIANT IDEA!
Tennessee Tea Party wants to remove slavery from history books
Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:03 AM EST
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"Slavery is of course portrayed in the textbooks nowadays I'm sure as a totally negative thing. Had there not been slavery in the South, the economy would've fallen," Rieck said.
I cannot believe any sane person could say something like that, justifying the ownership and brutality of one human being by another! Incredible! :o(
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#1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:04 AM ESTI'm sorry, but even if slavery really was the only thing that kept the economy from failing, then maybe the economy should have been allowed to fail. The ends don't justify the means, and slavery will always be evil regardless of the circumstances.
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I cannot believe any sane person could say something like that,...
Exactly...this is a BS title. How do you go from one person's (in my opinion, insane) world view who roots for the tea party to:
Tennessee Tea Party wants to remove slavery from history books
anyone who believes this either reads the Daily Kos on a regular basis or would be the person at the job site sent to fetch a board stretcher...
- 1 vote
I cannot believe any sane person could say something like that,...
Exactly...this is a BS title. How do you go from one person's (in our shared opinion, insane) world view who roots for the tea party to:
Tennessee Tea Party wants to remove slavery from history books
anyone who believes this either reads the Daily Kos on a regular basis or would be the person at the job site sent to fetch a board stretcher...
The ends don't justify the means, and slavery will always be evil regardless of the circumstances.
Absolutely!
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